We installed six KUKA robot systems with a special heat tolerance and a total of 18 thousand parts in the new robotic forging line of Rába Futómű Ltd. The investment can bring an annual increase of 20-50% to the front axle production capacity of the company.
In response to the growing customer demand, Rába, one of the largest Hungarian companies in the automotive industry, has decided to replace its front axle manufacturing line as part of a complete investment. The complexity of the project and the scale of the investment resulted in a unique and outstanding development in the forging industry in Hungary.
Our task at Robot-X was to design and install a robotic system for manipulating workpieces between successive machining (cutting, heating, rolling, bending, forging, deburring and cooling) stations.
Some interesting numbers of the nearly 2 year long project:
- 2500 m2 production area
- 6 special robots with high heat tolerance,
- 2 of which are hanging robot arms, in one case moving on a 10 m track
- 120 kg work pieces at 1300 ° C in the respective phases
- uniquely designed grippers
- 500 kg payload head changers with hydraulic and electric feeder modules
- design and implementation of 200 m safety fence and
- 11 safety zones
